Biology:Mantoididae
From HandWiki
Short description: Family of praying mantises
Mantoididae | |
---|---|
Vespamantoida wherley | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Mantodea |
Family: | Mantoididae Giglio-Tos, 1927 |
Genera | |
See text |
Mantoididae is a family of praying mantises which contains Neotropical species of praying mantises from tropical North and South America. The family was formerly represented by the sole genus Mantoida, until the genus Paramantoida[1] was described in 2014 and Vespamantoida[2] in 2019. The family differs from the closely related Chaeteessidae in having an apical claw on the fore tibiae which are also less curved. Males have ocelli and a cylindrical body shape, unlike the dorsoventrally flattened Chaeteessidae. The cerci are also shorter.[1]
Genera
The following genera are placed in the family Mantoididae:[3]
- Mantoida - 11 species,
- Paramantoida - 1 species Paramantoida amazonica, typically dark colored with white spots resembling certain wasps[1]
- Vespamantoida - 2 species, resemble some ichneumonid wasps[4]
- †Pseudomantoida Schubnel and Nel 2019 Oise amber, France, Eocene (Ypresian)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "A new genus and species of Mantoididae (Mantodea) from the Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazon, with remarks on Mantoida Newman, 1838". Zootaxa 3797 (3797): 194–206. May 2014. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3797.1.14. PMID 24870864. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3797.1.14.
- ↑ "Vespamantoida wherleyi gen. nov. sp. nov. (Mantodea, Mantoididae)". PeerJ 7: e7886. 2019-10-17. doi:10.7717/peerj.7886. PMID 31656699.
- ↑ "family Mantoididae: Mantodea Species File". http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1185078.
- ↑ "Vespamantoida wherleyi gen. nov. sp. nov. (Mantodea, Mantoididae)". PeerJ 7: e7886. 2019-10-17. doi:10.7717/peerj.7886. PMID 31656699.
Wikidata ☰ Q16914818 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantoididae.
Read more |